High Power SESAM Mode-Locked Laser Based on Yb3+:YAlO3 Bulk Crystal
https://doi.org/10.21122/2220-9506-2020-11-3-179-186
Abstract
Yttrium aluminium perovskite YAlO3 (YAP) crystal, doped with rare-earth ions, has been extensively studied as a diode-pumped laser host material. The wide interest to rare-earth ions doped YAP crystals is explained by its good thermal and mechanical properties, high natural birefringence, widely used Czochralski growth method. The aim of this work was to study the Yb3+:YAlO3 crystal as an active medium for high power mode-locked laser.
Yb3+-doped perovskite-like aluminate crystals have unique spectroscopic and thermooptical properties that allowed using these crystals as an active medium of high power continuous wave (CW) and modelocked (ML) bulk lasers with diode pumping.growth method. The aim of this work was to study the Yb3+:YAlO3 crystal as an active medium for high power mode-locked laser.
In our work spectroscopic properties of Yb:YAP crystal and laser characteristics in CW and ML regimes are investigated. Maximum output power of 4 W with optical-to-optical efficiency of 16.3 % and 140 fs pulse duration have been obtained for Yb:YAP E //c-polarization with 10 % output coupler transmittance. Tunability range as wide as 67 nm confirms high promise of using Yb:YAP crystal for lasers working in wide spectral range.
About the Authors
A. RudenkovBelarus
Address for correspondence: Alexander Rudenkov – Center for Optical Materials and Technologies, Belarusian National Technical University, Nezavisimosty Ave., 65, Minsk 220013, Belarus
e-mail: a.rudenkov@bntu.by
V. Kisel
Belarus
Viktor Kise
Nezavisimosty Ave., 65, Minsk 220013
A. Yasukevich
Belarus
Anatol Yasukevich
Nezavisimosty Ave., 65, Minsk 220013
K. Hovhannesyan
Armenia
Karine Hovhannesyan
0203, Ashtarak-2, Armenia
A. Petrosyan
Armenia
Ashot Petrosyan
0203, Ashtarak-2, Armenia
N. Kuleshov
Belarus
Nikolai Kuleshov
Nezavisimosty Ave., 65, Minsk 220013
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Rudenkov A., Kisel V., Yasukevich A., Hovhannesyan K., Petrosyan A., Kuleshov N. High Power SESAM Mode-Locked Laser Based on Yb3+:YAlO3 Bulk Crystal. Devices and Methods of Measurements. 2020;11(3):179-186. https://doi.org/10.21122/2220-9506-2020-11-3-179-186